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Querying my Literary Speculative novel, EVERAFTER! #forbiddenlove #secrets #dark #motherdaughter #sacrifice

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Soph@soph-pl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

𝗛𝗲𝗿🧭I came here to learn German. Not to inch closer to my disarming, bruised host with every word, every laugh. We’re just friends—until our nights turn sultry. Until Berlin, edgy and mellow, teases a different life, if only I'd stay. I can’t. I've planned my future... elsewhere. #Questpit #Q #A #R

Soph@soph-pl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

𝗛𝗶𝗺⚓The only fight I have left in me is for my son. I've no time for the houseguest the language institute sent me by mistake. Until we talk. We click. Suddenly, I'm wishing for things again. But she's not a choice I can make. Come fall, I'll have to let her go too. #Questpit #Q #A #R

EvelynHail, PhD@evelynhail.bsky.social · 6mo ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."A graphic titled "The Comps" in golden lettering. It displays four book covers arranged in a grid: "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli, "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros, "Shadow and Bone" by Leigh Bardugo, and "The Witcher: The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.A self-made fantasy illustration showing a halfway transformed, dark-haired man, Prince Konstantin Veliki, with a silver crown and dragon wings. He is carrying a woman, a humble servant Iva, masquerading as a Duchess Zora, in a long, flowing cream-colored gown as they fly through the air. She is his guest but unbeknownst to him, she is plotting to poison him. In the background, a sprawling forest surrounds a magic academy, Kolegium with colorful, traditional Slavic-style onion domes—gold, silver, bronze and green. Each of the domes represents air, water, fire and earth magic respectively. Snippet text at the bottom reads: "Do you always sequester your guests and take flight with them?"A self-made illustration set in the catacombs under the magic academy, Kolegium, featuring classical-style statues on the walls. Iva, in dark armor, rides a bright, light blue-scaled dragon; it is Prince Konstantin Veliki in his dragon form. They face off against a monstrous, ethereal shadow dragon composed of wispy, black smoke and glowing eyes — this is Konstantin’s fallen father Tibor Veliki. A brilliant golden sphere of light, relic of the Slavic god of light, Belobog, called Spark of Creation, floats on a pedestal between them. Text at the bottom of the snippet reads: "Let us dance, little one," the Shadow Dragon hisses in a dry whisper of the fallen. "A worthy foe," Konstantin responds. We take to the air to meet the darkness. Two gargantuan winged silhouettes hover in the abyss, suspended in a precarious balance. They mirror one another; two sides of the same coin, champions of Belobog and Chernobog.
Raven of@theravenof.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Ocean Whip is the only vehicle that can cross the sea now that the Overseers rule the sky. Mal and Dylan accidentally set out in a whip train and struggle to get home, facing dangers from the Overseers, the ocean, and their own inexperience. Will they make it? #QuestPit #W #MG #SF #T#D

From Mal's bluster, Dylan assumed he had 2-3 days until she would head off to the whip train. He had one day, as it turned out. He was scoping out the station when he saw a flash of leopard print down by the docks. There weren’t any trains set to depart until the next morning and the only people authorized to take the whip train this time of year were military personnel, so Dylan headed down to the water as fast as he could. As he got closer, he could see Mal’s pinkest leggings under her oversized leopard-print messenger bag, her favorite for carrying tools. He didn’t understand how she thought she could go incognito that way, but he supposed it didn’t matter. People had become so fearful of the ocean crossing that the Port really wasn’t doing much security. It had been four years since the last transoceanic flight was lost, and no whip trains had ever been attacked, but it was understandable to be skittish. Dylan certainly had no desire to get on a whip train. He wasn’t sure what he was going to say to Mal but he had to convince her not to do this. What was she even thinking?
Angie M Brady@angiembrady.bsky.social · 6mo ago

At its core, THE HOUSE THAT BUILT US gives you a glimpse at how people as close-knit as three sisters could have vastly different perspectives. Perspectives that color their pasts and influence their futures. Let me introduce you to the three sisters! #questpit #Q #WF

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Steph 📝🐛@stephnwang.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The executioner’s daughter is coming for His Majesty’s head ⚔️ ♱ revenge plot with female rage ♱ slowburn romance subplot ♱ black FMC with a big sword ♱ kingdom politics with royals + knights ♱ hidden magic, trust no one… Art by author #questpit #W #DF

Drawing of main character in @stephnwang ’s fantasy novel
Gert Ramm 🦋@rammwriter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Eddie Fletcher thinks he’s on the wrong end of a wind up, though MI5 isn’t prone to practical jokes, but it doesn’t take him long to realise a rift in time is no laughing matter - especially when the government thinks he's responsible and wants him dead. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

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